"Developers currently building for the BlackBerry or Android platforms will be able to quickly and easily port their apps to run on the BlackBerry Tablet OS thanks to a high degree of API compatibility. Â The new optional app players will be available for download from BlackBerry App World and will be placed in a secure 'sandbox' on the BlackBerry PlayBook where the BlackBerry Java or Android apps can be run." A smart move. BlackBerry developers can still know that enterprises will want their apps, while ordinary buyers can feel happy about running Android apps.Â

Tony Hirst's presentation and notes for the winning idea from the OpenUp competition run by TSO. It's huge and ambitious and it's now got Â£50,000 of funding behind it, and Hirst has Â£1,000. Who says there's no money in free data?

"Overall the Amazon Appstore isn't a terrible experience, especially compared to Android's default Marketplace. I just don't believe it has a place in the market unless Amazon cuts deals with carriers or phone manufacturers to bundle the store on devices from the factory. Alternatively, perhaps this is the start of Amazon's master plan to build its own Android powered tablet for distributing Kindle books and, now it seems, mobile apps."

"The problem with Android appears to be that it is on starvation funding from Mountain View. This was to allow Google's executive team to claim it was cash positive even though it generates little direct revenue and largely lives off of a slim advertising revenue stream. Â "This decoupling of revenue from the product has led to a number of problems, not the least of which is a rather impressive amount of charges of infringement from companies and the open source community. Â Microsoft bears the not inconsiderable costs of their platforms; Google appears to pass those costs on."

"A proof-of-concept system for interaction with parking data aimed at end-users in Southampton, UK to be accessed via telephone, SMS or the web. "The local council in Southampton provides electronic data for the public to use and see, for selected car parks throughout the city. This data contains information about the capacity, space usage and predicted space usage over the course of the day for each parking venue. By collecting this data two services can be created." Try it yourself - there's a phone number and everything.

Cut in price from Â£437 according to the Asda site, ie by Â£138. Given that it was selling contract-free for Â£600 as recently as October, we're guessing Samsung hasn't made a vast profit on it so far.

"Between January and February 2011, says Comscore, worldwide unique visitors to MySpace declined by a staggering 14.4% from 73m visitors to 63m visitors. It's about half of the audience they had a year ago. "Everyone knows MySpace traffic is going the wrong way, but the accelerating decline (and big financial losses) is a serious problem. Parent company News Corp. is in the middle of a sale process, and everyone from venture firms to private equity firms to operating companies are taking a look. 'It's like slowing down at the scene of an accident,' says one person with knowledge of the discussions, 'everyone wants to take a look at how bad things have become." They've become bad. And getting worse.

"This week we're sending out the new update only to 'open market' Windows Phones around the world. If you own one of these phones, you probably already know it: these are unbranded devices that aren't customized for a specific mobile operator. "In next phase of the rollout process, we'll start making the update available to a broader range of customers. When the update is available for your phone, you'll get a message on the device letting you know. All the instructions you need to install an update are here on the Windows Phone website. (Some new phones come with the update already installed.)"